Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 253 307
Rank change year-on-year -101 +54 -85
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 456 583 940
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.34% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.44% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 217 285 522
10th Percentile £37,950 £48,750 £38,797
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,145 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.55% +17.39% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,780 40,561 85,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 93.18% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,959 21,364 61,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -88 415 £66,771 -7.90% 772
London -5 258 £80,000 - 543
Work from Home +69 252 £63,076 -5.15% 360
UK excluding London -167 141 £63,076 -6.55% 282
North of England -16 49 £71,255 -10.93% 67
North West +10 32 £85,000 +6.12% 43
South East -121 28 £47,500 -32.14% 77
East of England -14 25 £65,000 -10.34% 20
Midlands -42 19 £58,750 -9.62% 37
South West -89 18 £61,845 +3.07% 40
West Midlands -41 17 £57,500 -17.27% 24
Yorkshire -47 14 £61,963 +90.65% 19
Scotland -6 3 £55,000 -32.31% 17
North East -45 3 £63,076 -32.72% 5
East Midlands -22 2 £152,500 +190.48% 13
Wales -42 2 £69,501 +16.11% 12

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (3.07%) Confluence
3 10 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.88%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 54 (11.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 28 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.55%) Workfront
2 5 (1.10%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.88%) Shopify
4 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Magento
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (17.32%) AWS
2 58 (12.72%) SaaS
3 53 (11.62%) iPaaS
4 52 (11.40%) Azure
5 18 (3.95%) Pulumi
6 15 (3.29%) GitHub
6 15 (3.29%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.85%) GCP
8 12 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (1.97%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.75%) Figma
12 7 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.32%) Asana
14 5 (1.10%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.88%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.88%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (0.88%) Miro
15 4 (0.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 78 (17.11%) Broadband
2 29 (6.36%) HTTP
3 12 (2.63%) WAN
4 10 (2.19%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.97%) LAN
6 5 (1.10%) Firewall
6 5 (1.10%) Multicast
6 5 (1.10%) Network Security
7 4 (0.88%) MPLS
7 4 (0.88%) NGN
8 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) WLAN
9 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wireless
10 1 (0.22%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.22%) RS-232
10 1 (0.22%) RS-485
10 1 (0.22%) Skype
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.50%) Metadata
2 19 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.95%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.95%) RDBMS
4 13 (2.85%) Power BI
5 7 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.66%) Big Data
7 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.66%) Tableau
8 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (5.70%) JIRA
2 18 (3.95%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.32%) Git
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 159 (34.87%) Marketing
2 138 (30.26%) Social Skills
3 137 (30.04%) Finance
4 73 (16.01%) Banking
5 60 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (12.94%) Retail
7 56 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (10.53%) Law
9 46 (10.09%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (9.65%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (6.58%) Public Sector
12 28 (6.14%) Legal
13 25 (5.48%) Back Office
14 16 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (3.07%) Italian Language
15 14 (3.07%) Retail Banking
16 13 (2.85%) Financial Institution
16 13 (2.85%) Manufacturing
17 11 (2.41%) German Language
18 9 (1.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 132 (28.95%) Product Manager
2 81 (17.76%) Lead
3 75 (16.45%) Product Owner
4 69 (15.13%) Senior
5 41 (8.99%) Senior Manager
6 37 (8.11%) Senior Product Manager
7 32 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.58%) Development Engineer
9 29 (6.36%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (4.61%) Developer
11 20 (4.39%) Product Lead
12 19 (4.17%) Consultant
13 18 (3.95%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (3.07%) Business Consultant
15 14 (3.07%) Business Development Consultant
15 14 (3.07%) Development Consultant
16 12 (2.63%) AWS Developer
16 12 (2.63%) Azure Developer
16 12 (2.63%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.80%) REST
2 18 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (1.32%) CSS
3 6 (1.32%) HTML
4 5 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.10%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.10%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.88%) Keras
6 3 (0.66%) .NET
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.44%) Pandas
7 2 (0.44%) Plotly
7 2 (0.44%) Seaborn
7 2 (0.44%) Spring
7 2 (0.44%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.22%) LangChain
8 1 (0.22%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.22%) Playwright
8 1 (0.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 158 (34.65%) Product Ownership
2 64 (14.04%) Social Media
3 54 (11.84%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.84%) Over-the-Top Content
4 33 (7.24%) Cloud Native
5 30 (6.58%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.82%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.17%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
10 11 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.75%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.54%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.54%) Podcast
14 6 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
15 5 (1.10%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.14%) Linux
2 19 (4.17%) Unix
3 8 (1.75%) Windows
4 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (65.35%) Roadmaps
2 218 (47.81%) Agile
3 138 (30.26%) Product Roadmap
4 121 (26.54%) Product Vision
5 106 (23.25%) Decision-Making
6 94 (20.61%) Mentoring
7 89 (19.52%) User Stories
8 83 (18.20%) AI
8 83 (18.20%) Product Requirements
9 82 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 80 (17.54%) Customer Experience
11 78 (17.11%) Product Backlog
12 74 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (16.01%) Sprint Planning
14 62 (13.60%) Workflow
15 61 (13.38%) Digital Marketing
15 61 (13.38%) User Experience
16 60 (13.16%) Matrix Organization
16 60 (13.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.62%) Java
2 32 (7.02%) Python
3 26 (5.70%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.39%) Bash
5 18 (3.95%) Go
6 9 (1.97%) SQL
7 6 (1.32%) Bicep
8 4 (0.88%) R
9 3 (0.66%) C#
9 3 (0.66%) PHP
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (15.57%) Degree
2 19 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 16 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.97%) HND
7 8 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.75%) HNC
8 7 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.66%) CCNA
10 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.66%) CISSP
10 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.44%) ACCA
11 2 (0.44%) CBAP
11 2 (0.44%) CIMA
11 2 (0.44%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.44%) IIBA
11 2 (0.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.04%) QA
2 18 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.75%) GDPR
4 7 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.88%) SLA
6 3 (0.66%) PERC
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.04%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Firmware
2 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.80%) Terraform
2 21 (4.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.95%) Ansible
3 18 (3.95%) Argo
3 18 (3.95%) Kustomize
3 18 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.44%) WSUS
5 1 (0.22%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (13.38%) Adobe
2 45 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.14%) Google
4 13 (2.85%) Oracle
5 9 (1.97%) Cisco
6 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.32%) Dell
8 5 (1.10%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.10%) CQG
8 5 (1.10%) Databricks
8 5 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.10%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.10%) Juniper
8 5 (1.10%) Patsystems
8 5 (1.10%) Reuters
8 5 (1.10%) Trayport
9 4 (0.88%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.88%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.66%) Aderant